Honors History of Europe and Russia

Unit III: Fascism and WWII

 

Be able to explain each of the following:

  1. Why did liberal democracy fail in the post-WWI era? Use Italy and Germany as your examples.
  2. Define fascism. Why was fascism successful in Italy and Germany, but not in England and France?
  3. Describe the Spanish Civil War. In what ways was the Spanish Civil War a dress rehearsal for WWII?
  4. Describe the differences between modern art and Nazi-approved art. What was the purpose of Nazi-approved art? How was it similar to and different from Socialist Realism?

 

Be able to identify each of the following:

  1. Proportional representation
  2. Single-member districts
  3. The Treaty of Versailles (1919)
  4. Freikorps
  5. Weimar Constitution
  6. Munich Beer Hall Putsch (1923)
  7. King Victor Emanuel
  8. The March on Rome (1922)
  9. Black Shirts
  10. The Fascist Party
  11. The Lateran Treaties (1929)
  12. Ethiopia (1935)
  13. The Enabling Act
  14. The Night of the Long Knives
  15. The Reichstag Fire
  16. Ernest Hemingway
  17. For Whom the Bell Tolls
  18. The Iberian Peninsula
  19. The 2nd Spanish Republic (1931-1936)
  20. General Francisco Franco
  21. El Caudillo
  22. Republicans
  23. Nationalist
  24. Falange
  25. The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
  26. Pablo Picasso
  27. Guernica
  28. Prince (King) Juan Carlos
  29. Jose Maria Aznar (Popular Party)
  30. Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (Socialist Party)
  31. The Basques
  32. Appeasement
  33. Anschluss
  34. Sudetenland
  35. Neville Chamberlain
  36. Edouard Daladier
  37. Oswald Mosley
  38. The British Union of Fascists (BUF)
  39. Munich Conference
  40. Poland (September 1, 1939)
  41. Gestapo
  42. Free French
  43. The Miracle at Dunkirk
  44. Marshal Philippe Petain
  45. General Charles DeGaulle
  46. Battle of Britain (1940)
  47. The Blitz
  48. Luftwaffe
  49. RAF
  50. Spitfires
  51. Spitfire Summer (1940)
  52. Winston Churchill
  53. Auschwitz-Birkenau
  54. Modern Art
  55. Paul Klee
  56. Wassily Kandinsky
  57. Cubism
  58. Piet Mondrian
  59. Nazi Art
  60. Henry Dorgeres
  61. Greenshirts
  62. Vichy France
  63. Collaboration
  64. The British Lion
  65. “We shall never surrender!”
  66. “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
  67. French Resistance
  68. The Maquis
  69. Brownshirts
  70. The Nazi Party
  71. The SS
  72. Himmler
  73. Dachau
  74. Lebensraum
  75. Lebensborn
  76. The Roma (Gypsies)
  77. The Punjab
  78. Eugenics
  79. Euthanasia
  80. Nuremberg Laws (1935)
  81. The Madagascar Plan
  82. Kristallnacht pogrom (Nov 1938)
  83. Einsatzgruppen
  84. Wannsee Conference
  85. The Final Solution